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Boliek, Carol A.; Halpern, Angela; Hernandez, Keren; Fox, Cynthia M.; Ramig, Lorraine – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2022
Purpose: This study examined the effects of an intensive voice treatment Lee Silverman Voice Treatment (LSVT LOUD) on children with Down syndrome (DS) and motor speech disorders. Method: A Phase I, multiple baseline, single-subject design with replication across nine participants with DS was used. Single-word intelligibility, acoustic measures of…
Descriptors: Down Syndrome, Program Effectiveness, Intervention, Voice Disorders
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Jones, Harrison N.; Crisp, Kelly D.; Kuchibhatla, Maragatha; Mahler, Leslie; Risoli, Thomas, Jr.; Jones, Carlee W.; Kishnani, Priya – American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2019
Speech disorders occur commonly in individuals with Down syndrome (DS), although data regarding the auditory-perceptual speech features are limited. This descriptive study assessed 47 perceptual speech features during connected speech samples in 26 children with DS. The most severely affected speech features were: naturalness, imprecise…
Descriptors: Speech Impairments, Down Syndrome, Children, Speech Skills
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Fernandes, Fernanda, Ed. – IntechOpen, 2017
Speech-language pathology has different practice and research histories, standards, methods, and challenges in different countries and regions. Awareness of these different realities may contribute to the scientific development of the field and improve the services delivered to different populations. Sharing solutions to similar problems in…
Descriptors: Speech Language Pathology, Therapy, Evaluation, Aphasia